The development and evaluation of microstructured reactors for the water gas shift and preferential oxidation reactions in the 5kW range

5kWel One-Stage Water Gas Shift (WGS) and Preferential Oxidation (PROx) reactors were designed and evaluated for the clean-up of surrogate diesel reformate. For the WGS reactor, CO conversions of up to 95% were attained using typical surrogate synthetic diesel reformate. The PROx reactor was capable of converting a feed concentration of 1.0mol% CO to 20ppm. Load changes for both reactors could be carried out without significant overshoots of carbon monoxide.